by Lisa-Jo | Jan 18, 2011 | Callings, Faith, Family, Motherhood
Sometimes at the end of the week I’m too tired to be much good for anything or anyone. I get that “my eyes feel like they’ve been crying” sensation, even when they haven’t. My head aches and my lips can’t seem to absorb enough Vaseline. I’m hungry, but making a meal...
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by Lisa-Jo | Dec 31, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith, Travel
The new year is coming. And the old will softly slip away to sleep. I have a bed time habit I’ve inherited from my dad. Every night, before I turn out the last light, I walk over to the window. In the summer they’re usually wide open anyway. But in the...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 29, 2010 | Callings, Christmas, Faith, Family, Motherhood
As we travel toward December 25th, I will be marking the four weeks of Advent with this series – Pregnant with Christmas. With one child born two days after Christmas and my tummy full of another one right now, so many of my thoughts are on that teenage mother...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 18, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Faith, Motherhood
I read a whole book in the last two days. I can’t remember when last I did that. My life is usually so stop-and-go between wiping bottoms, reading Spiderman chronicles, and picking up stray cherios from all over the planet. But when stranded between time zones...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 11, 2010 | Callings, Faith
There was a time in my life when I was a corporate attorney. I wore power suits, worked 80 hour weeks and sold my time in six minute increments. I wrote and researched and researched and wrote and almost always ate dinner at the firm every night of the week. And in...
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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 9, 2010 | Callings, Faith, Family, Marriage
I’ve been thinking about love. And sex. And faith. I’ve been listening to true, searching, thoughtful, compelling, compassionate and artistic women as they strip down and bare their beliefs. Wrapped in blankets and propped between pillows, when the night...
